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  • adjective able to be flooded

Etymologies

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flood +‎ -able

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Examples

  • In other twentieth-century neighborhoods, some homeowners are similarly designing ground floors as "floodable" car garages or children's play spaces.

    John McQuaid: New Orleans Is Not a Libertarian Experiment 2008

  • (The designers were so committed to the possibilities of the theatrical experience that they also built a huge floodable area in front of the stage, so miniature naval battles could also be staged.)

    Gerald Sindell: The Universal Rules of Framing Part II: What Does The Proscenium Frame? 2009

  • Rippstein et al. recognize three types of landscape: the foothills, the alluvial plains and the highlands, that may be divided in well-drained highplains and floodable highplains.

    Llanos 2007

  • According to some estimates, by the year 2030, the potential floodable area of the coastline will reach 70% and would involve 1-2 kilometers (km) of the coast and possibly be more severe toward the Occidental Swamp (up to 4 km).

    Cuban wetlands 2007

  • One levy held back the Mississippi, the other a lake or floodable land.

    Archive 2005-09-01 Zoe Brain 2005

  • One levy held back the Mississippi, the other a lake or floodable land.

    Six Five Four Degrees of Separation Zoe Brain 2005

  • The whole flood insurance program needs to be revamped in order to remove the protection for any structure not already built in a floodable area.

    CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2005 2005

  • Navy Austin class LPD; it has a large helicopter flight deck and a floodable bay that could fit up to 4 air cushion landing crafts (LCAC).

    Latest Articles 2010

  • The steep slopes and floodable areas at the bottom of the site meant that many people would soon have to be moved out, yet there was nowhere for them to go until alternative, more acceptable sites were made available, he said.

    Media Newswire media-newswire.com 2010

  • Navy Austin class LPD; it has a large helicopter flight deck and a floodable bay that could fit up to 4 air cushion landing crafts (LCAC).

    Defense Tech 2010

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